descriptive anthropology

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   the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

   Synonymsethnography

   Broaderanthropology

Questions about descriptive anthropology

What does descriptive anthropology mean?

descriptive anthropology means "the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies".

What is another word for descriptive anthropology?

Close synonyms include ethnography. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is descriptive anthropology a common word?

descriptive anthropology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.